Although your seven week test is unlikely to change, you do need to confirm your negative result at three months. In the UK and most of Europe, that means twelve weeks. I'm fully expecting your three month test result to also be negative.

You need to be using condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, every time, no exceptions until such time as you are in a securely monogamous relationship where you have both tested for ALL STIs together. To agree to have unprotected intercourse is to consent to the possibility of being infected with a sexually transmitted infection.

Have a look through the condom and lube links in my signature line so you can use condoms with confidence.

Anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care check-up, including but not limited to hiv testing, at least once a year and more often if unprotected intercourse occurs.

If you aren't already having regular, routine check-ups, now is the time to start. As long as you make sure condoms are being used for intercourse, you can fully expect your routine hiv tests to return with negative results. Don't forget to always get checked for all the other sexually transmitted infections as well, because they are MUCH easier to transmit than hiv.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

You can rely on what your doctor told you concerning the tests. However, here at AIDSmeds we have to go by the official window period, which is three months.

You will have to decide for yourself what to do. It is unlikely that your three month result would be different from your seven week result. If you want to be 100% certain, test again. If you trust your doctor, don't.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

You may have misunderstood what you read in I Just Tested Poz. There are no people in that forum who tested negative at six weeks and then tested positive later. There are some who test regularly, but this is not the same.

You are just going to have to trust us that your result is not likely to change. Try to relax in the meantime and stay busy to keep your mind away from hiv.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

As the others have said, your result is very encouraging and VERY HIGHLY LIKELY NOT TO CHANGE. You need to keep yourself busy and distracted over the next few weeks before your final test. Stay away from the Internet if you have to. Best wishes.

Actually, the CDC's official window period is three months, not six months. Six months is for people who are on chemotherapy, regular IV drug users, or have severely compromised immune systems. In other words, a person would know if they belong to that special group of people who may on occasion seroconvert late.

You're right that the overwhelming majority of people seroconvert within 4-6 weeks using today's tests. Asi que, no te preocupes, ok?

I have all glands (ganglia) of my body very inflamed, mainly the axillary ones. They hurt to me enough. To the week of the possible infection I was admitted the hospital with tonsilitis, gingivitis and 105 of temperature. Hard 5 days. Later I have been with fatigue and eruptions in the skin. When I thought that it could have VIH… already had passed me all this!

The ganglia (glands) have followed inflamed all this time and now they have become painful. I want to be optimistic, I have a negative test to the 7 weeks for antibodies and another one for antigen p24, but I begin to think that it does not serve to me don't mention it.

When a person has an illness from being infected with hiv (some don't), the illness is what you feel when the body is making hiv antibodies. Hiv antibodies are what the test look for. You tested six weeks after the beginning of your illness and if your illness had anything to do with hiv, you test would have been positive.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Thanks for your answers. What it worries more to me now it is that the laboratories that tested to me have mistaken with my result.

You know some case? that a test of a false negative by error in the laboratories? Me I did them in a deprived laboratory, and have listened that sometimes errors by kits of defective tests or errors of identification of the blood samples happen.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Many, Many, Thank you very much Ann! You are the only person whom it tranquilizes to me. With respect to my laboratory, I believe that it is good. nonalive in a poor zone, all the opposite… in addition is very pretty. If someday you want to come, you are invited.

PA 457 is a new antiretroviral (anti-hiv medication) and I believe it is still undergoing clinical trials. It is only for people who are hiv positive and already taking medication. It has nothing to do with you or your situation as you are not likely to test hiv positive.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts